Famous People with Name Balzer

Karin Balzer            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Karin Balzer: German hurdler, one of the best in high hurdles event during the 1960s.

Oswald Marian Balzer            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Oswald Marian Balzer: was a Polish historian of law and statehood, one of the most renowned Polish historians of his times.In 1887 he became a professor at the University of Lwów. Between 1895 and 1896 he also briefly served as its rector. Since 1891 until his death he was also the director of City Archives in Lwów. In 1888 he was offered a seat in the Polish Academy of Skills, as well as several other scientific societies, both in Poland and abroad. In 1901 he founded the Society for the Support of Polish Science in Lwów (Tow. dla Popierania Nauki Pol. we Lwowie), the first such society in the city, later to be renamed to Lwow Scientific Society (1920).

Félix Balzer            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Félix Balzer: was a French physician, specialising in dermatology and pathology. Balzer gave an early description of pseudoxanthoma elasticum in 1884. He used the term "xanthome elastique" but subsequently it was found not to be a form of xanthomatosis. Balzer is also responsible for coining the term "adénomes sébacés" (adenoma sebaceum) to describe the papular facial rash of tuberous sclerosis. Again, this term proved to be incorrect since the papules were neither adenoma nor derived from sebaceous glands.